February, 2006

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About Virtual Earth (MapPoint) B2B

The Virtual Earth (MapPoint) B2B blog I've created is more than just a post of my rants and raves about what's cool and lame. It's a place where people interested in Virtual Earth technology can come to review archived content, ask questions, or propose feature requests. It's fun but has a value added element for enterprise developers to *hopefully* find the answers they're looking for after they've looked everywhere else.

We're taking it to the next level - street side imagery. Today @ noon PST we will launch Windows Live Local's version of street side imagery @ http://preview.local.live.com/ .
Some facts about it:
Right now the imagery resides in Seattle and...

Check out this site: http://www.birdseyetourist.com/ . It's a great reference for finding unique eye candy available in Windows Live Local. Plus, I found some imagery where I didn't know we actually had imagery!

I've seen a few implementations of MWS routing (driving directions) used by our customers that aren't necessarily done correctly and it's actually creating some consternation with customer's end users. With that I give you, how to use MWS Driving Directions...

There's been some confusion around moving from V1 to V2 beta of Virtual Earth. Hopefully, this helps clarify the situation.
1. The first VE control was posted to http://www.virtualearth.com/standard/v1/MapControl.js .
2. It was then moved to http...

Someone asked me recently what the scales for the different zoom levels were. Of course, I went to Windows Live Local and zoomed down one level at a time and produced the following list:
Level - distance 1 - 7100 mi 2 - 3000 mi 3 - 1000 mi 4 - 600...

The Microsoft Research team has a sweet implementation of Road and Aerial data for India. It's not street level data, but it does have the Virtual Earth full-bleed maps and click to zoom functionality for levels 1-9.
http://virtualindia.msresearch...

This was posted on the VE blog a couple days ago, but I just found out about it: http://spaces.msn.com/virtualearth/blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!462.entry .
The way it works is as such: when looking for something in Windows Live Local, you can actually...

LoopNet, a leader in the commercial real estate business is now powering their maps with Virtual Earth. Why haven't you integrated VE into your commercial web site? If you need a contact to license Virtual Earth, please contact me and I will hook you...

Those crazy cats at Poly 9 have created yet another killer mashup. For those of you lucky enough to have a ticket to see the Seahawks and Steelers due battle in Detroit one things for sure - you won't be without a way to find something to do. On this...